Family name origins & meanings
- German (Schön) : nickname for a handsome or pleasant man, from Middle High German schoene ‘fine’, ‘beautiful’; ‘refined’, ‘friendly’, ‘nice’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from the same vocabulary word as in 1, in any of its senses.
- Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from schoen ‘shoe’.